Social Wellness
for the Modern World
The Uplift Center is a boutique social-wellness consultancy and training hub that helps teams, leaders, and event organizers build belonging through play. We design and facilitate high-impact wellness experiences, workshops, and strategies that bring people together—with joy, mindfulness, and meaning.
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Here’s How We Help You Build Belonging
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Let us design belonging for you.
For Events: Drunk Yoga® Social Wellness Experiences
From corporate off-sites and conferences to brand activations and team retreats, Eli and her team of instructors create unforgettable, playful social wellness experiences that actually create engagement.
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Learn how to build belonging yourself.
For Teams & Leaders: Uplift Academy
Eli’s workshops teach practical social wellness strategies through mindfulness, communication, and play—helping leaders and teams cultivate cultures rooted in connection, creativity, and kindness.
Meet Our Founder —
Eli Walker
Eli Walker is a social wellness speaker and strategist, solo-performance artist and the creator of Drunk Yoga®, the viral global phenomenon that pioneered the social wellness movement by turning yoga into a drinking game. With a background in theater, mindfulness, and live experience design, Eli founded The Uplift Center to continue that mission: to help people [playfully] remember how to be human together through the art of getting over themselves, engaging communities and sparking radical belonging.
At The Uplift Center, we believe belonging isn’t found—it’s facilitated. We’ll show you how.
THE P.L.A.Y. METHOD™
Our Framework for Belonging
Belonging doesn’t happen by accident—it happens by design. Take your sense of belonging into your own hands using Eli’s proprietary P.L.A.Y. Method™, created to help you set up the conditions for connection and build your own social wellness strategy tailored for your work, life, and community.
P — Place: Shape physical and figurative environments where you feel safe to engage with others.
L — Language: Choose your words wisely; the right language invites inclusion, commitment and safety.
A — Acknowledgment: Leverage play to get out of your head and into connection.
Y — You: Through mindfulness techniques, embody the presence through nervous system-regulation that makes belonging contagious.
Trusted by Teams That Care
From Google to Porsche, TikTok to Indeed, our clients trust The Uplift Center to transform their events and teams with creativity, warmth, and play.
Ready to Build Belonging?
Let’s design an experience your people will never forget. Whether you’re hosting a conference, planning an off-site, or investing in your team’s culture through a corporate retreat or wellness brand activation, The Uplift Center will help you create belonging through play.
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Connect with Eli on social media for twice weekly #belonginghacks.
